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"Stupid" Neandertal upgraded
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:44 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
He wasn't pretty, but he wasn't as stupid as he looked either.
In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neandertals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As articles about the research findings state, 'early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neandertals.' The data used in the study is available on-line along with a visual description of the process used.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 203924.htm
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Stone-me--h ... 4424738.jp
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 605164.ece
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/08/re ... hannellink
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 08628.html
http://www.thinkcomputer.com/research/index.html
Re: "Stupid" Neandertal upgraded
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:56 pm
by Ishtar
Rokcet Scientist wrote:
In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading.
Hooray! Science finally catches up!
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:51 am
by Minimalist
I could swear I used to work for that guy.
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:11 am
by Ishtar
Yeah... I wondered what had happened to that particular ex-husband.
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:53 pm
by Sam Salmon
He has a kind face and a courtly manner-needs a new barber though.
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:06 pm
by pattylt
He kinda looks like my uncle Bernie, if he would put a yarmulke on.
He actually looks very sweet!
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:57 pm
by Minimalist
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:06 am
by pattylt
OMG, that's him!
Wonder why the artist trimmed his whiskers on his face but not his neck? Isn't the neck where a beard is itchiest?
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:35 pm
by clubs_stink
Neanderthal stock is on the rise. A slew of recent studies have argued that the not-quite modern humans hunted, painted and communicated like their Homo sapiens cousins. Now new research suggests that Neanderthal technology was at least as good as that of early humans.
HA!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... tools.html
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:48 am
by Rokcet Scientist
pattylt wrote:OMG, that's him!
Wonder why the artist trimmed his whiskers on his face but not his neck? Isn't the neck where a beard is itchiest?
Only when it's (very) short, patty. If it is long (enough) hair is soft.
Which is one reason why many people shaving their pubic hair need to repeat that every (other) day, for instance....
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:37 pm
by Ishtar
Rokcet Scientist wrote:pattylt wrote:OMG, that's him!
Wonder why the artist trimmed his whiskers on his face but not his neck? Isn't the neck where a beard is itchiest?
Only when it's (very) short, patty. If it is long (enough) hair is soft.
Which is one reason why many people shaving their pubic hair need to repeat that every (other) day, for instance....
Is that from personal experience, RS?
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:47 pm
by Digit
You've let me down Ish! I thought we were all going to show restraint and not enquire.
Dying to know though!
Roy.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:49 pm
by Ishtar
Well, Dig .. his knowledge on it seems so detailed.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:57 pm
by Digit
Yeah! Can't beat asking an expert can you?
Roy.
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:05 am
by Minimalist
The rehabilitation of HNS continues!
http://www.livescience.com/history/0809 ... kulls.html
Score one more for Neanderthals.
A new study has found that Neanderthal brains grew at much the same rate as modern human brains do, knocking down the idea that they grew faster in a style considered more primitive.
The recent discoveries of two very young Neanderthal skeletons, as well analysis of a little-studied infant Neanderthal skeleton, allowed the researchers to trace how quickly the species' skulls grew.
The results showed a greater similarity than expected between modern humans and Neanderthals, a hominid species that lived in Europe and Asia between 130,000 and 30,000 years ago.
